SCHOOL LEAVING AGE.
INSPECTOR'S EXPLANATION
[US TEIVECIFtAI'II. —TRESS ASSOCIATION.] WELL IN G TON, Wed nesday.
" Some parents seem to bo under a. misapprehension when their children can leave school," stated Dr. J.* AY. Mcllwraith, senior inspector of schools, at, a meeting of the Wellington Education Board to-day. l)r. Mcllwraith pointed out that the leaving age was fixed at 14 years, unless a pupil possessed a certificate of proficiency in standard \T., m which case ho could leave when ho reached his thirteenth year, but no earlier. A child who gained his proficiency before the age of 13 could go on to a post-primary school or pass into the seventh standard of a primary school, but ho could not leave school altogether.,
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVII, Issue 20570, 22 May 1930, Page 11
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